Five departments battle downtown blaze in Point Measant
Firefighters from five departments fought a fierce downtown fire in Point Measant, estimating five million dollars in damage. Gallipalli’s aerial ladder aided the effort as crews drenched the Music Box and nearby structures, while photographers documented the blaze and reporters filed coverage from Meigs.
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Viremin Srom
Point Measant
Hames
Gallipalli Department
Luivitiers Wor
Cohen
Viet Arms Plan Seems Successful in Open Arms Campaign
In the Mekong Delta a Viet Cong guerrilla surrendered, illustrating the Open Arms program through which defectors are drawn from the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese to South Vietnamese and American authorities. The initiative, supported by the United States with about 8.1 million dollars of the 9.8 million annual budget, reports thousands of returnees since its start.
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Cambodia
Saigon
United States
Washington
Chieu Hoi
Chuu Hoi
South Vietnam
Mekong River
Kien Hoa
National Liberation Front
Sirhan Trial Opens in California Murder Case
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan goes to trial Tuesday January seventh on murder charges in the Kennedy assassination. California law may allow diminished responsibility defenses to avoid the death penalty, with witnesses expected and a large, high-security courtroom setting.
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Ralph Dighton
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
California
Uvillce Parsons
Parsons
Fapi Cabush
Kennedy
Israel
Richard Caballero
Sirhatr
Caballero
Kan
Ft Tas
Segally
Maurice Walsh
Beverly Wills
Walsh
State Supreme Court
Jiurne
Commonwealth Leaders Gather In Unraveled Empire Summit
Britain hosts the Commonwealth summit with 28 member states including Malaysia and Canada as prime ministers, archbishops, and politicians convene in a meeting where formal decisions are not required. Tensions over leadership, immigration, and Europe frame the conversations as the group meets to talk and explain viewpoints rather than reach binding accords.
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London
Commonwealth
Caribbean
Maxkarios
Cyprus
Canada
Pierre Illiott Trudeau
Trudeau
Malaysia
Takw Abdul Rahman
Britain
London Times
Ike Ahteresia
Nigeria
Year That Was: Wedding Front Page Shock and 1968 Sports
A survey of October 1968 headlines highlights Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wedding on Scorpios amid religious controversy. It details the World Series, Mexico City Olympics, and space milestones, noting Gibson and McLain in game drama and Apollo 1 progress. President Johnson’s October halt to bombing North Vietnam is reported as hopeful for peace.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Scorpios
Ionian Sea
John Fr. Kennedy
Agong
Vatican
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Mexico City
St. Louis Cardinals
Detroit Tigers
Levene
St. Louis
Tigers
Denny McLain
Bob Gibson
Gibson
Moer
Mickey Jalich
Detroit
United States
Soviet Union
Hungary
Vera Caszlavska
Charles Hickcox
Phoenix
Ariz
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Donn F. Eisele
Walter R. Cunningham
Cape Kennedy
Johnson
North Vietnam
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Woini Mieasaut
Mary Aysre
Paint Pietyant
Reulah Jones
Meigs
Roy Ces
Mekong Delta
Ambassador Hotel
Superior Court Department
Civic Center
Gray Stone Hall of Justice
Tept
Australia
England
France
Germany
Mexico
Japan
Mary
Adel
Munir
Pasadena
Superior Court
Herbert V. Walker
T He Infantry
Europe
David N. Filts
District Attorney's Office
Russell B. Parsons
Sispy
Fisue
Charles Cahan
California Supreme Court
Grant B. Cuyper
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Iver
Emile Zola Berman
New York City
Burman
Matthew C. McKeon
Parris Island
3.C
McKeon
Bishava
Editon
Joy Smilley
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